Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
The Police and Security Forces in MANNAR, accompanied by Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials, were reluctantly compelled to lower LTTE flags on Wednesday (24) evening that were hoisted in the MANNAR Town Hall premises and the Urban Council grounds, despite repeated requests made to the LTTE to refrain from doing so.
An LTTE gunfire directed at Security Forces in retaliation against removal of an LTTE flag remained hoisted inside the public ground at Veppamkulam on 25 November 2004, caused injuries to two civilians traveling in a bus that was passing by at that point of time.
Canadian High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Ms.Valerie Raymond, accompanied by several senior Canadian military personnel toured the Jaffna peninsula recently in an attempt to evaluate the ongoing de-mining process in the north, and also to learn more about developments in the aftermath of the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between the government and LTTE.
In an apparent intensified attack on soldiers attached to Army intelligence unit in order to provoke Security Forces, five LTTE men waylaid and hacked two soldiers attachd to the Army intelligence unit in the general area of NUNAVIL, CHAVAKACHCHERI around 7.30 p.m. on 26th November 2004 while they were returning to their camp after duty.
Barely after twenty four (24) hours after the LTTE took an undertaking with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Vavuniya that they (LTTE) would not hoist LTTE flags but would sit together with SLMM and Security Forces on a daily basis to discuss day to day matters, LTTE men on Friday (26), kept off from attending the scheduled meeting at SLMM office in Vavuniya today (27).
The Police imposed local curfew in TRINCOMALEE Police area to be effective from 12.00 noon today (29 November 2004) until 6.00 a.m. Tuesday (30) as tension grew following a series of agitations and acts of violence, mainly triggered off by LTTE men and their supporters to coincide with an LTTE commemoration.
Parallel to the 2004 National Tournament of the Practical Pistol-shooting, the Golden Eagle Pistol-shooting Tournament got under way at Ganemulla Commando Regiment shooting range during 29-31 October 2004.
The Indian Army Chief, General N. C. Vij now in Sri Lanka on a goodwill tour, as part of his itinerary during (November 1- 4), visited Vavuniya and Anuradhapura on Wednesday (3) along with Mrs Vij and his entourage.
Mrs Rita Vij, wife of the visiting Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army General N.C, Vij following an invitation extended by Mrs Sonia Kottegoda, President of the Army Seva Vanitha Unit (ASVU) met a representative gathering of the ASVU office-bearers at the Army Headquarters on Tuesday (2).